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Shortly after the ball dropped in Times Square, cleanup crews got to work with brooms and blowers to clear the confetti paper, pizza boxes, streamers, popped balloons and empty soda bottles littered on the sidewalks and push them into the street after the massive New Year's celebration.

It was a cold awakening for former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who spent his first day as a civilian listening to speakers skewer his legacy, as he looked on, stone-faced in the winter chill at his successor’s inauguration ceremony.

Shortly after New Year’s Day, Man Hyung Lee, 77, was nursing a coffee in his usual seat in a narrow booth at a McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens, when two police officers stepped into the fluorescent light of the restaurant.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday that New York City had reached an agreement with civil rights lawyers who had challenged the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices, which would allow the sweeping reforms ordered by a federal judge last summer to be carried out.

All 164 employees are being encouraged to apply for positions in New York NBCUniversal plans to lay off the entire “Tonight Show” staff — all 164 Burbank employees — when the late-night talk show moves from California to New York City next month, TheWrap has learned.

If you’re a criminal on the run from New York’s finest, you may soon have to worry about yet another tool at the disposal of the NYPD: Google Glass. An unnamed New York City law enforcement official confirmed to VentureBeat on Wednesday that the NYPD has procured several pairs of Google’s connected eyewear, and it plans to test them in order to determine how the headsets might help police officers during their patrols.

The overwhelming majority of cabbies who killed and maimed passengers and pedestrians in the past five years are back behind the wheel. Of 16 fatal or serious crashes since 2009 examined by The Post, only two of the drivers had their licenses revoked, according to a review based on a Freedom of Information Act request.

A new startup is betting that you can't find a suitable public restroom to relieve yourself—and that you'll pay top dollar for a cushy seat when the urge strikes. Posh Stow and Go is billing itself as New York's "first members-only day storage and bathroom facility," with memberships that allow you to pay-as-you-poo.

Mater Dei Academy sits shuttered, blue drapes pulled across its windows, atop a hill in this working-class city. From its steps, you can peer across the mist-shrouded expanse of the Meadowlands to the distant spires of Manhattan.

New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz Jr. introduced a bill that would require parents of elementary school children to attend a minimum of four parent support classes. If parents don't go, 6th graders won't move onto 7th grade.

At the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterterrorism compound in the Chelsea neighborhood, the urgent announcement sends special agents rushing to the streets. Has a secret terrorist cell been uncovered? A trove of bomb-making materials, perhaps?

There’s no flushing away this problem. A Brooklyn dentist says the moistened wipes he used in the bathroom clogged his pipes — and he’s making a federal case out of it. Sales of wipes have soared to $6 billion a year, with advertisers claiming the products are the best way to get clean — and safe to toss in the toilet.

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law was introduced to prospective jurors Monday at the start of his trial on charges that he conspired to kill Americans and support terrorists in his role as al-Qaida’s spokesman after the September 11 attacks. US district judge Lewis A Kaplan asked Suleiman Abu Ghaith to turn and face the potential jurors before asking if any knew him. None did.

In 2004, developers Will and Arthur Zeckendorf bought the famed Mayflower Hotel and several adjacent lots on the Upper West Side for just over $400 million. Only one thing stood in their way: A 73-year-old recluse named Herb Sukenik, who refused to move from the hotel. In this excerpt from his new book, “House of Outrageous Fortune”, author Michael Gross reveals the most expensive eviction in New York City history.

The NYPD is actually facing five years of court oversight– rather than just three as Mayor de DeBlasio claimed when announcing in January plans to drop the city’s appeal of a judge’s ruling that found the department’s stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional, court papers filed Tuesday reveal.

Two people are dead, 22 are hurt and others are missing after two buildings collapsed following a gas leak explosion that rattled upper Manhattan and shattered windows with a blast that could be felt blocks away, officials said.

There is currently an outbreak of measles in New York City. Considered eliminated in the United States in 2000, last year saw a record number of outbreaks around the country. It’s only three months into 2014, and not only is the nation’s largest city seeing cases in several boroughs, but other major metropolitan areas are warning of new cases as well.

A New York City official speaking to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity said that a mentally ill, homeless military veteran “essentially baked to death” in a jail cell last month. The official said that Jerome Murdough — who had been arrested on a trespassing charge and taken to an observation unit at Rikers Island — was not aware that he had to open a small vent to allow cool air to enter his cell.

An investment banker has been found dead in an apparent suicide in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Kenneth Bellando's death is the latest in a spate of suicides by finance professionals both around the globe and in New York. He was found dead in a neighboring backyard after jumping off his six-story building at around 10.20pm on Wednesday March 12.

New York City has seen a wave of luxury condos and fast food outlets uproot local delis and dive bars. To make sure we don't forget the city's past, two New York-based photographers, James and Karla Murray, have documented the city's transformation in a 2008 book which captures mom-and-pop stores from Harlem to the Lower East Side.

Uber will begin testing a new service in Manhattan tomorrow, but the new service isn't designed to get you around: instead, it's launching a courier service called Uber Rush, which will let you hire bike and foot messenger to pick up your items and bring them to another location in the city. The service will only operate in Manhattan to start, and couriers won't be able to travel north of 110th Street — no higher than top of Central Park.

One of the cops trapped in a Brooklyn apartment building fire allegedly set by a bored teen has been declared brain dead, sources said.
Officer Dennis Guerra remains on life support at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, where he was transferred after doctors struggled to stabilize him at Coney Island Hospital and Jacobi Hospital.

Most New Yorkers don't even know it exists. But a million forgotten souls are buried in mass graves dug by convicts on a tiny, forbidden island east of the Bronx. Since 1869, still-born babies, the homeless, the poor and the unclaimed have been stacked one upon the other, three coffins deep, on Hart Island.

The night the police came for Robert Aaron, he was at home in the Mott Street apartment where he has lived for the last quarter century, making a coconut pudding called tembleque. Mr. Aaron, whose legal name is Robert Aaron Vineberg, is a 57-year-old musician who has played with David Bowie, Wyclef Jean, Mick Jagger and Amy Winehouse, among others, a genial man with a pencil-thin mustache and a grasp of half a dozen languages.

How would a cabbie manage to cross the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in New York City more than 3,000 times without paying a dime in tolls? Pretty easily, it turns out. Police say Rodolfo Sanchez figured out that if he tailgated the law-abiding, toll-paying car ahead of him closely enough, he could sneak though before the barrier came back down, reports the New York Times.

Next time you’re riding in a New York City taxicab, try this hack: Even before reaching your destination, you can tap the fare on the television screen and swipe your credit card ahead of time. No need to conduct the transaction if you’re in a rush at the end of the ride.